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“The paintress”. Fresco from the House of the Surgeon, Pompeii.
Naples Archaeological Museum.
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The goddess Artemis. Wall painting from the Casa della Danzatrice, Pompeii.
Naples Archaeological Museum, Italy.
Photo by Luigi Spina
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Wall painting from the Thermopolium/Caupona of Tertius (IX.7.21) Pompeii.
Goddess Fortuna, with cornucopia and rudder. (Naples Archaeological Museum)
Someone, perhaps the owner of the tavern, wrote on the wall:
CACATOR - CAVE MALUM = Shipper, beware of Evil.
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The mythological beings used to fly and dancing in the wall paintings of Pompeii.
From the Casa di Cicerone.
Naples Archaeological Museum.
Pictures from: las-palabras-magicas.blogspot. (July 2010)
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Omphale and Heracles. Fresco from Pompeii (VII 16-10)
The fresco depicts Heracles drunk in the presence of the Lydian queen Omphale; an attempt to show the power of wine and the god Bacchus.
Naples Archaeological Museum.
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Fresco from Temple of Isis,sacrarium, north wall, Pompeii (VIII, 7, 28)
Above: navigium Isidis (boat of Isis) and another boat between two busts of Serapis; below: cista mystica between two snakes (similar to a lararium)
Naples Archaeological Museum, Italy.
By: ArchaiOptix, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Silver situla decorating with bathing women; found in Herculaneum.
Naples Archaeological Museum, Italy.
Photo by Gary Todd ( CC0 )
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Maenad and cupid. Fresco from the House of Lucio Cecilio Giocondo, Pompeii
Naples Archaeological Museum, Italy
By: Sailko (CC BY-SA 3.0) via Wikimedia Commons.
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Wall painting from Pompeii.
Above: two lares with rhyton and situla, genius offering at an altar, flute-player, servant with vase and servant pushing a pig to the altar; below: altar with fruits and eggs between two Genius Loci snakes.
Naples Archaeological Museum, Italy.
By: ArchaiOptix (CC BY-SA 4.0) via Wikimedia Commons
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Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli
Today’s Flickr photo with the most hits: the Battle of Greeks and Amazons - bas relief in the Archaeological Museum of Piraeus.
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Fresco from Temple of Isis,sacrarium, north wall, Pompeii (VIII, 7, 28)
Above: navigium Isidis (boat of Isis) and another boat between two busts of Serapis; below: cista mystica between two snakes (similar to a lararium)
Naples Archaeological Museum, Italy.
By: ArchaiOptix, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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